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Inoue Hisashi
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- He was born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1934. Due to financial hardship, he was placed in an orphanage in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. After attending Sendai Daiichi High School, he graduated from Sophia University’s Faculty of Humanities. While still a university student, he began writing scripts as a stage coordinator and house writer at the France-za, a strip club in Asakusa. Subsequently, he worked as a broadcast writer and co-wrote the scripts for Hyokkori Hyōtanjima, which became a national sensation. In 1970, he made his debut as a novelist with the novel Bun to Fun (Bun and Fun). During this period, he also began writing plays. His prolific career spanned plays and novels, earning him the Kunio Kishida Drama Award and the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists for Dōgen no Bōken (Dogen’s Adventure), the Naoki Prize for Tegusari Shinjū (Handcuffed Double Suicide), the Yomiuri Literature Prize and the Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize for Kirikiri-jin (Kirikiri People), the Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Prize for Shanghai Moon, the Kan Kikuchi Award for Tokyo Seven Roses, as well as the Mainichi Art Award and the Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award for Taiko Tataite Fue Fuite (Beating the Drums, Blowing the Flutes). In 1984, he formed the theater company Komatsuza and began staging his own works as a resident playwright. He was named a Person of Cultural Merit in 2004. In 2009, he received the Imperial Prize and the Japan Art Academy Prize. He died in April 2010 at the age of 75.
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國語元年